Legal
Privacy policy.
Last updated 10 November 2026
In short: we use your location to guide you and to place the reports you choose to share. Your drives are saved to your account so you can look back at them. We don't sell your data, we don't show you tracking ads, and you can delete your account and everything in it at any time from the app.
Who we are
Potamia is a navigation service made by Examopotamia ("we", "us"). This policy covers the Potamia website at potamianav.examopotamia.com, the Potamia web app and the Potamia iPhone and CarPlay app.
What we collect
- Your account: your name, email address and role (driver or business). Your password is never stored; we keep only a salted, slow hash of it.
- Your location while you use Potamia: used on your device to show where you are and guide you. It is sent to our servers only when you search, ask for a route, share a report, save a drive or register a business.
- Reports you share: the type of report, where and when you made it, and your first name, which other drivers see.
- Confirmations: when you answer "Still there?", we record your answer so each person counts once.
- Recorded drives: the track, times and speeds of drives you record, plus their distance and duration.
- Saved places: the Home and Work places you choose to save.
- Business listings: the name, category, location, address, phone, opening hours, description and offer you submit, and how often drivers view or navigate to the listing.
- Technical data: our hosting provider records basic request information (such as IP address and time) to keep the service secure and working.
How we use it
- To give you routes, turn-by-turn guidance and nearby places.
- To show reports to drivers near them, and to plan routes around reported crashes and closures.
- To keep your drives, saved places and points in your account.
- To review and publish business listings, and to show businesses how their listing performs.
- To send you emails you need: verifying your address, resetting your password and updates about your business listing.
- To prevent abuse, such as fake accounts and false reports.
Who can see what
- Other drivers see your reports with your first name, and approved business listings.
- Service providers process data for us: Cloudflare hosts the service and its database and sends our emails. To draw maps, find places and plan routes, Potamia sends the places and coordinates involved to OpenStreetMap-based services (map tiles from OpenFreeMap, search from Photon, nearby places from Overpass, and routing). These requests contain locations but not your name or email.
- We share information if the law requires it.
- We never sell your personal data and we don't use it for advertising.
How long we keep it
- Reports leave the map after 12 hours and are deleted from our systems after 30 days.
- Recorded drives, saved places and your account stay until you delete them.
- Sign-in sessions end after 90 days, or when you sign out.
Your choices
- Export any recorded drive as a GPX file.
- Delete a single drive at any time.
- Delete your account from Profile in the app. This deletes your account, drives, saved places and sessions straight away. Reports you made stay on the map until they expire, without your name.
- Turn off location in your phone's settings. Potamia can't guide you without it, but everything else keeps working.
- The demo account keeps everything on your device and sends nothing to our servers.
Security
Connections are encrypted. Passwords are stored only as salted hashes. Access to business review is limited to Examopotamia staff.
Children
Potamia is a driving tool and isn't meant for children under 16.
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll update the date above and tell you in the app.
Contact
Questions about your data? Email potnav@examopotamia.com.